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To live, and be missed when you die, Is the crown of the noblest life.
Rev. James Ashmore was born in Jefferson county, Tennessee, on the 17th of August, 1807. He married Catharine Armstrong in 1828, and resided on a farm in Clarke county until 1840. He was licensed to preach on the 17th of October, 1833, and ordained on the 10th of Octo- ber, 1837, by Vandalia Presbytery, of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. With his wife and four children he moved to Vermilion county in March, 1840, and he became a home missionary under Foster Presbytery, of the C. P. church. He traveled extensively, and often preached through the week as well as on the Sabbath. His sermons would often average three hundred and sixty-five per annum, and were, for the first five or six years of his residence in this county, delivered mostly in school-houses and private residences. He lived from March, 1840, to October, 1843, on the Alexander McDonald farm, four miles west of Georgetown, and often preached in the residence of Mr. Mc- Donald and Abram Sandusky, each of whom were worthy ruling elders of one of his congregations. If their grandchildren (now nu- merous in this county) could see one of these pioneer congregations wor- shiping in the private houses of these good men (long dead and gone to their reward), they would then know more of the progress of this county than history can tell them. In 1843 Mr. Ashmore moved to Vance township, on the Salt Fork, and organized Mt. Vernon congre- gation, three miles west of Butler's Point (now Catlin). Since which time he has lived about half his time in Elwood and Vance townships, respectively, - the last seven years in Fairmount. He preached to
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Mt. Pisgah congregation, two miles west of Georgetown, twenty-nine years in succession-three years since-making thirty-two years in all. He has organized thirty congregations, and under his preaching there have been about four thousand five hundred professions of religion. He is now in his seventy-second year, hale and hearty, still preaches with zeal and energy, and has accumulated considerable property. He has been married three times, and each of the deceased, as well as his living wife, are natives of Tennessee-his native state. He has four- teen children living and ten dead. Three of his sons are ministers of the gospel.
Henry Davis, Fairmount, farmer, section 18, was born in Vance township, Vermilion county, Illinois, on the 5th of May, 1841. He has been twice married. He was married on the 24th of December, 1863, to Miss Nancy Cox, a native of Miami county, Ohio. She was born in 1838, and died on the 24th of September, 1874. On the 7th of Septem- ber, 1875, he was married to Miss Rebecca E. Baird, a native of Brown county, Ohio - born on the 3d of January, 1855. Mr. Davis has three children by present wife: Freddie L., Gracie E. and Sarah M. He owns one hundred and fifty acres of land, on which he has made most of the improvements. He and his wife are members of the Bap- tist church, and politically he is a democrat.
In every profession there are those who, by years of hard study, constant practice, and a close attention to business, are the recognized in their professions. This position has been attained and honestly earned by Robert B. Ray, M.D., of Fairmount, the subject of this sketch, who for twenty-three years has been a practicing physician and surgeon. He is the son of Robert and Mildred J. Ray, who were natives of Kentucky. His father was a brother of James B. Ray, ex-governor of Indiana. They moved to Dearborn county, Indiana, during the early settlement of that county. Here the subject of our sketch was born, on the 18th of February, 1830. But little of the surroundings of his early life are known. In 1843 he first came to Vermilion county, Illinois, where he remained until 1855, engaged in agricultural pursuits. At the above date he began the study of med- icine, taking his first course of lectures at the Rush Medical College of Chicago during the winter of 1855-56. In 1856, after leaving college, he went to Shelby county, Missouri, where he practiced his profession for one year. He then moved to Macon, in the adjoining county, and while there was united in marriage to Miss Fannie, daughter of Jesse and Ellen Beecher, who were early and prominent pioneers of Fair- field county, Ohio. This latter place was Mrs. Ray's native place, where she was born on the 20th of July, 1838. They were married on
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the 23d of December, 1858. In 1860 the Doctor returned to Chicago and finished his medical education, graduating with honor and receiv- ing a diploma. In 1861 he returned to Vermilion county, Illinois, locating at Fairmount, where he has since resided. He left Missouri on account of his political views, he being a staunch Union man, while many of his neighbors were very radical in their views on the opposite side of the question. He and Mrs. Ray are both members of the M. E. church. The Doctor is also a member of the Vermilion County Med- ical Society. They have a family of three children. The eldest, Beecher B., was born on the 11th of October, 1859, and in August, 1879, became a graduate in the scientific course of Valparaiso. College. The next younger is Agnes B., who was born on the 3d of March, 1867. The last and youngest is Robert T., born on the 19th of April, 1869.
J. S. Gilkey, Homer, Champaign county, farmer, section 19, is a native of Vermilion county, born on the 16th of September, 1843. His father came to the county in 1830. His parents were natives of Ken- tucky. His father died in 1877, and his mother in 1846. In the late rebellion Mr. Gilkey enlisted in 1861, in Co. I, 26th Ill. Vol. Inf., and served until the close of the war. He was in twenty-eight engage- ments, such as Madrid, Missouri; Island No. 10, siege of Corinth, Iuka, Farmington, siege of Vicksburg, Jackson, Chattanooga, Straw- berry Plains, and others. He was taken prisoner at Cave Springs, and held as a prisoner of war five months. He was also a prisoner at Chat- tanooga for a short time. He returned home at the close of the war, and, on the 1st of March, 1866, married Miss Mary J. Goodrich, a native of Union county, Ohio, born on the 30th of July, 1848. They have had five children born to them, three living: Celestia L., Seblin B., Amy O., and two dead.
Rev. John Hoobler, Fairmount, was born in Perry county, Pennsyl- vania, on the 2d of August, 1801. He removed to Montgomery county, Ohio, in 1823; thence to Fountain county, Indiana, in 1832, and to Vermilion county, Indiana, where he represented the county, in 1836 and 1837, also in 1841 and 1842. He removed to Vermilion county, Illinois, in 1847, and settled in Ross township, where he was the first elected supervisor. He then went to Livingston county, Illinois, in 1851, where he was presiding elder for six years. From there he went to Perrysville, Indiana, in 1872, and there he acted as local preacher. He returned to Vermilion county in 1874. He has been twice mar- ried : first, to Miss Rebecca Fetterhoof, in 1821, born in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, on the 5th of June, 1796, and died on the 6th of August, 1871. His second marriage was to Lydia A. Hulick, on the
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17th of February, 1872. She is a native of Pennsylvania, born on the 21st of November, 1816. Mr. Hoobler was the father of eleven chil- dren by his former wife, of whom eight are living: Jeremiah, Jemima, wife of D. Gouty; David, John F., Frederick, Mary, wife of J. W. Fleshman, Andrew J. The deceased are: Wm. O., Julia, and Daniel V. Mr. Hoobler is now the great-grandfather of twenty-two children, and grandfather of sixty-eight.
Isaac Simpson, Fairmount, manufacturer of wagons, was born in Fountain county, Indiana, on the 9th of February, 1822, and came to Vermilion county in 1845. He stopped at Georgetown for some time, and then left the county, to return again in 1847, and located in Dan- ville, where he followed blacksmithing until 1868. He then moved on a farm three and a half miles southeast of Catlin, and, in 1869, removed to Fairmount. On the 13th of July, 1848, he was married to Miss Elizabeth Richards, daughter of Henry and Hannah Richards, who came to this county in 1833. She was born in Washington county, Tennessee, on the 29th of March, 1825. They have eight children : three sons and five daughters : Mary E., wife of G. Burghart; Jennie, wife of J. H. McCorkle; John F., Lillie, Charley H., Annie, Susan and Isaac B., all of whom were born in Danville. Mr. Simpson cut the first county seal for Vermilion county, and sent the first coal from Danville east for inspection.
Townsend Hendrickson, Homer, Champaign county, farmer, section 11, was born in Queen's county, New York, on the 18th of August, 1824. He came to Fayette county, Ohio, in 1840, and, while there, was married to Miss Malinda Ocheltree, in 1848, who was a native of Ross county, Ohio, born in 1825. Mr. Hendrickson removed to Ver- milion county on the 23d of February, 1849, and has resided in this county ever since, except while in the army. He enlisted at the com- mencement of the war, leaving his wife and a family of small children to attend the farm, in Co. E, 73d Ill. Vol. Inf., and was in all the fights in which the regiment was engaged but one, such as Perryville, Stone River, Murfreesboro', Mission Ridge, Resaca, New Hope Church, Kenesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta and Jonesboro'. He is the father of three sons and one daughter: Mary A., wife of A. Mor- ison; Jesse B., John O. and Albert T. Mr. Hendrickson owns a fine farm of two hundred and sixty-five acres, on which he has made all the improvements.
Jesse Mantle, Homer, Champaign county, farmer, section 14, son of Henry and Catharine Mantle, was born in Alleghany county, Pennsyl- vania, in 1814, and removed to Fayette county, Ohio, in about 1820. Mr. Mantle was bound out at thirteen years of age to learn the tanner's
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trade, which he mastered at the age of twenty-one. On the 12th of August, 1837, he was married to Miss Mary Custer, daughter of George and Margaret Custer. She is a native of Virginia, born in 1809. They have three living children : Jerome, Margaret J. and Thomas C .; and two dead : Josephine and Joseph. Mr. Mantle came to Vermilion county in 1850, and rented for some time, but by economy he has become the owner of seventy-nine acres of land, which he has under good cultivation. He and his wife are members of the M. E. church, and Mr. Mantle is a staunch republican, and a member of A.F. & A. M. Jerome Mantle, his son, served in the rebellion, in Co. F, 26th Ill. Vol. Inf., and was in the battles of Corinth, Atlanta, Mission Ridge, Kenesaw Mountain, Chattanooga, Savannah, and in all the battles in Sherman's march to the sea. He was at the general review at Wash- ington, District of Columbia.
Daniel Oaks, Homer, Champaign county, farmer, section 11, is the son of Michael and Sarah Oaks, and was born in Ohio, on the 27th of August, 1842. His parents came to Clarke county, Illinois, in 1846. They were natives of Pennsylvania and Ohio, and removed to Vermil- ion county in 1852, where Mr. Oaks has since made his home, except while in the army. He served in the late war in Co. F, 26th Ill., hav- ing enlisted in 1864, and served during the war; was in the battles of Atlanta, Marietta, Savannah, and other minor engagements. He was at the general review at Washington, District of Columbia. Mr. Oaks returned home after the war, and was married to Miss M. M. Morrison, in 1869, who was born in Ohio, on the 1st of July, 1848. They have two children : Eva and Charles.
C. F. Bradway, Fairmount, druggist, was born in Salem county, New Jersey, in 1850, and came with his parents to Vermilion county in 1854, settling at Georgetown. He removed to Fairmount in 1876, and engaged in his present business. He was united in marriage on the 16th of August, 1874, to Miss Ella Haworth, daughter of Thomas and Margaret Haworth, who were early settlers of the county, they coming in 1822. She was born in this county, on the 10th of May, 1848. They have one son : Everett H.
G. N. Neville, Fairmount, farmer, section 10, son of George and Elizabeth (Wolfe) Neville, was born in what was then Hardy county, Virginia, on the 2d of February, 1820. His father died when he was two years of age, and he and his mother came to Tippecanoe county, Indiana, in 1834, where they were among the early settlers. They re- mained there twenty years, and then removed to Vermilion county, and settled where he now resides. His mother died in 1842. Mr. Neville took a life partner on the 26th of September, 1840, his choice
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being Miss Mary S. Throckmorton, born in Hampshire county, West Virginia, on the 16th of December, 1823. By this union they have been blessed with ten children, of whom seven are now living.
Barton Elliott, Fairmount, farmer, section 18, son of William and Elizabeth Elliott, was born in Vance township, Vermilion county, Illi- nois, on the 11th of November, 1854. He was united in marriage to Miss May J. Baldwin, on the 21st of September, 1876. She was born in Brown county, Ohio, on the 21st of August, 1855. They are mem- bers of the Baptist church.
Edward Dunn, Fairmount, clerk, is the son of Michael and Julia (Conley) Dunn, who were natives of Ireland, and came to Delaware county, New York, in 1847, where Edward, the subject of our sketch, was born, on the 14th of August, 1854. His parents remained in New York for eight years, and then removed to Fairmount, in 1855, becom- ing one of the early citizens of the now village of Fairmount. Here Edward spent the early part of his life, receiving a business education. In 1873 he engaged with Wilcox & Co. as salesman.
Jesse Doney, Fairmount, was born in Fayette county, Pennsylvania, in 1816, and in that year his parents removed to Richland county, Ohio, where they remained five years. They then went to Harrison county, where they remained a short time, and then returned to Fayette county, Pennsylvania, and located in the same house where Mr. Doney and also his father were born. Mr. Doney returned to Harrison county, Ohio, and commenced to learn the trade of brick-layer and stone-mason. In 1832 he came to Chicago. From there he went to what is now Joliet, where was then only one log cabin, which Mr. Doney helped to erect. He then returned to Harrison county, Ohio, again; then went to Coshocton county, where he worked on a farm for Michael Rodgers, whose daughter, Marion, he married in 1838. She was born in Harrison county, Ohio, in 1822. Mr. Doney then removed to Guernsey county, from there to Marshall, and thence to Montgomery county. From there he went to Hendricks county, and while there his wife departed this life, in June, 1854. He then mar- ried Miss Sarah A. Dale, on the 7th of June, 1855, who was born in Hendricks county, Indiana, on the 30th of April, 1829. Mr. Doney removed to Vermilion county, and purchased the Hickman farm, and has resided there and at Fairmount ever since. He is the father of two children, living, by his former wife: Michael C. and Lysander; and also four deceased : Hannah M., Kisander J., wife of F. Elliott during her life, Benjamin and Samuel; and by his present wife, three living: Jesse, Lincoln, Maggie, and two deceased: John and Marion. Mr. Doney now owns eight hundred and twenty-eight acres of land in
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this county, and four houses and lots in the town. He is a member of A.F. & A.M. and I.O.O.F., and has been county commissioner and justice of the peace.
Nimrod McBride, Fairmount, was born in what was then Monon- galia county, Virginia, on the 19th of February, 1811, and came with his parents to Dearborn county, Indiana, in 1813, where they remained until 1825. They then went to Marion county, where his father, Will- iam, died, in 1828, and his mother, Henriette, in 1831. Mr. McBride came to Tippecanoe county, Indiana, and while there married Miss Jane Jack, on the 1st of December, 1836, a native of Warren county, Ohio, born on the 16th of January, 1820. Mr. McBride removed to Vermilion county in 1855, and settled close to Fairmount, where he owns two hundred and forty acres of a fine farm, on which he has made all the improvements. He has been blessed with three daughters and one son, now living, and two deceased. The names of the living are Nancy C., Ella, Jennie and William; of the deceased, John T., who died in the army, and Rebecca. Mr. McBride was a whig until the republican party was organized, when he joined its ranks, and with this party he has always cast his vote.
R. Jack, Fairmount, shoemaker and justice of the peace, was born in Carroll county, Indiana, on the 19th of March, 1840, and raised in Tippecanoe county, where he remained until twenty years of age. He then came, with his father, to Vermilion county, Illinois, in 1860, and on the 1st of August, 1862, enlisted in the 73d Ill. Vol. Inf., Co. E, and served until the close of the war. He was in all the battles in which his regiment was engaged, and passed through them all without
receiving a wound. He has been three times married. His first union was on the 9th of August, 1865, to Miss Mary Shroyer, a native of In- diana, born in 1843, and died on the 20th of February, 1869. He was married on the 15th of June, 1870, to Miss Frances Rufin, also a na- tive of Indiana, born in 1844, and died in 1871. His third marriage was in 1872, to Miss Jennie Fellows, also a native of Indiana, born in 1848. By his present wife he is the father of one child, George. Mr. and Mrs. Jack are members of the M. E. church.
W. J. Rice, Fairmount, stock-dealer, is a native of Carter county, Kentucky, where he was born on the 3d of August, 1845. Mr. Rice came to Vermilion county in 1863, and engaged in the pursuit of farm- ing until 1877 ; since then he has dealt extensively in stock, shipping yearly the amount of $250,000 worth. On the 24th of October, 1868, Mr. Rice was married to Miss Martha E. Pratt, a native of Boone county, Indiana, born on the 24th of September, 1844. By this nnion
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they have one child living : William C .; James W. died. Mr. R. is a member of the Masonic Order, No. 590, of Fairmount.
Elias Holladay, Fairmount, dealer in drugs, son of Elias and Sarah (Hammond) Holladay, was born in Livingston county, New Jersey, on the 13th of September, 1835. At nine years of age he came with his parents to Parke county, Indiana, and while there his mother died. Then he and his father came, in 1859, to Indianapolis, Indiana, where they remained four years; then removed to Homer, Illinois, and re- mained one year, and then came to Fairmount, where he has been engaged in his present business ever since. He was appointed notary public in 1867, which office he now holds ; also was appointed post- master, on the 1st of October, 1874, which office he has held ever since. Mr. Holladay was united in marriage in 1866, to Miss Clara P. Short, daughter of Thomas Short, who was one of the early settlers of Ver- milion county. She was born in Danville, Vermilion county, Illinois, on the 3d of January, 1846. They have one son and one daughter liv- ing : Fred S. and Sarah H .; and one deceased : Frank. Mr. and Mrs. H. are members of Goshen Baptist church.
J. M. Wilkins, Fairmount, physician, was born in Marion county, Ohio, on the 22d of September, 1826. At six years of age he came with his parents to La Grange county, Indiana; thence to Branch county, Michigan. In 1846-7 he attended the Indiana Medical College, at La Porte, Indiana, and graduated in 1850. He then returned to Branch county and practiced for four years, and in 1854 came to Vermilion county, and first located in New Town, where he had an extensive prac- tice until 1859, and in 1864 removed to Fairmount, where he has had a continued practice ever since. Dr. J. M. Wilkins married Miss Me- hitable Pond, on the 28th of September, 1852 ; a native of Ohio; born on the 12th of August, 1832. They have three sons and one daughter : William F., Jennie E., Charles A. and Fred. The Doctor and his wife are members of the Baptist church, and he is a member of the Masonic and Odd-Fellows' Lodges. His political views are republican.
L. W. Sowers, Fairmount, farmer and stock-raiser, section 16, is a native of North Carolina, and was born in 1836. He removed with his parents to Fountain county, Indiana, in the fall of 1839. His father, Michael Sowers, was born in North Carolina in the year 1792, and died in Fountain county, Indiana, in 1845. His mother also was a native of North Carolina, born in 1802, and now resides in the above named county. Mr. Sowers was married in 1856 to Miss Margaret Darr, daughter of David and Mary Darr. She was born in Parke county, Indiana, in 1837. They have two sons and three daughters : David N., Elijah M., Sarah E., Mary R. and America A. Mr. Sowers
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removed to Page county, Iowa, where he remained one year. He then returned to Parke county, Indiana, and remained five years, and re- moved to Vermilion county, Illinois, in 1865, and settled on the farm where he now resides. By his industry he is now the owner of a farm of two hundred and twelve acres, which he has under good cultivation. He became united with the Lutheran church at seventeen years of age. He also is a member of the A.F.& A.M., and his political views are democratic.
H. Yerkes, Fairmount, farmer and stock-raiser, was born in Warren county, Ohio, on the 7th of May, 1840. His parents were natives of Pennsylvania, who came to Ohio in an early day. They went to Foun- tain county, Indiana, where he (Jacob Yerkes) died in 1866. His wife (Ann) now resides in Indiana. Mr. Yerkes, the subject of this sketch, took an active part in the late war, enlisting in August, 1862, in Co. H, 63d Ind. Vol. Inf., and served until the close of the war. He was in the following battles: Resaca, Burnt Hickory, Peachtree Creek, Kenesaw Mountain, the engagements around Atlanta, Jonesboro, Spring Hill, Franklin, Nashville, Tennessee, Wilmington, Golds- boro, and other minor engagements. He was mustered out in July, 1865, and came to Vermilion county. Mr. Yerkes has been twice married: first, on the 21st of September, 1865, to Miss Hester E. Prevo, who was born in 1839 in Fountain county, Indiana, and died on the 7th of September, 1877. Mr. Yerkes was married, in 1878, to Miss Mary O. Noble, also a native of Indiana, born in 1860. Mr. Yerkes has six children by former wife: Spencer G., Alice M., Ella M., Annie L., Susie and Hattie. He served as township supervisor five years. He is a staunch republican, and he and his wife are members of the M. E. church.
I. N. Wilcox, Fairmount, merchant, was born in Ross county, Ohio, on the 18th of November, 1847, and came west in 1866, locating in Fairmount. He engaged in his present business, and at the present time is doing as large a business as any firm in the county outside of Danville. In October, 1867, he was united in marriage to Miss M. Burroughs, daughter of Wilson Burroughs, one of the old and respected citizens of the county. She was born in the county on the 21st of January, 1848. They have one son, Harry B. Mr. Wilcox served in the late rebellion in Co. A, 49th O. V. I., and was in several engage- ments.
D. Gunder, Fairmount, farmer and stock-raiser, section 8, was born in Fairfield county, Ohio, in 1825, and came with his parents to Madi- son county, Indiana, in 1838. His father, Henry Gunder, was a native of Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. He was in the war of 1812, and
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departed this life in 1864. Mr. D. Gunder's mother, Elizabeth Sisco, was a native of England, and came to America in an early day, and died on the 8th of September, 1858. The subject of this sketch was married in 1849, to Miss Elizabeth Hugel, a native of Madison county, Indiana, born in 1832. Her father, Ephraim Hugel, was a native of Ohio, born in 1803 and died in 1842. Her mother, Susanna, was born in Penn- sylvania in 1804 and died in 1869. Mr. Gunder has a family of nine living children : Alice, wife of J. J. Howard ; Susie, wife of C. W. Baldwing; Joseph N., James H., Samuel H. Jennie B., Mary A., Julia M. and Arthur H. Mr. and Mrs. Gunder are members of the Baptist church. He owns a fine farm of three hundred and forty acres, with good improvements. He is a member of the A.F. & A.M. frater- nity, and is a practical farmer.
John K. Musselman, Fairmount, was born in Carroll county, Indi- ana, in 1843. His parents, Jacob and Catharine Musselman, came to that county in an early day, where they remained until the death of his mother (1850). They were natives of Pennsylvania, and of Ger- man descent. Mr. Musselman remained at home until man grown, spending most of his time in learning telegraphy and the railroad busi- ness, which he has followed mostly since 1865. He came to Vermilion county in 1869, and located in Fairmount, where he became one of the active and energetic citizens. He has creditably held the office of supervisor of Vance township for two terms, and is the present incum- bent. In 1873 he took a life-partner, his choice being Miss Mary E. Timmons, daughter of Capt. Timmons, one of the early settlers of the county. The result of their happy marriage is two children : Lewis W. and Maudie.
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